Analysis of Cry Me A River



You alone,
Implemented to condone division.
You,
And no one else...
Took steps with an agenda,
To use racism...
As an effective way,
That would bring hatred to begin...
A focus upon ethnic diversity.
The very bread and butter,
Of your own survival.

You.
And no one else,
Find the loss of your common sense.
Toss away for a life to fiction.
An honor.
And now you say,
Forgiveness to give it...
Is an attribute expected.
With anticipation to accept 'Christians' do.
As if duty driven.
While you try to cry me a river.

How many times have I already told you,
It's not easy to miss...
The lips of hypocrites.
Trembling.
And prepared to dismiss your faking of tears.
However...
What I offer for your lips to kiss,
No hypocrite you know to follow...
Would never be that honest.
Nor generous to recommend taking your time!

Since to me,
My attitude to acquire is this...
You have made it obvious and clear,
Remaining to get down and funky...
Is your 'thing'.
Without hesitating to prove,
This skill belongs to you to do it well.
Crying?
Had been your option to introduce a truth.
As far away and distant from your eyes.
Like the lies you tell repeatedly to deceive,
Reality.


Scheme xaBCxxdxefx BCxafdxxbaf bgxhxfgxxx egxehxxhxxxe
Poetic Form
Metre 101 100101010 1 0111 1111010 1110 110101 11110101 01001100100 0101010 111010 1 0111 10111101 101101110 110 0111 010111 1110010 10010101101 111010 111111010 11011101011 111011 01110 100 00110111011 10 111011111 11011110 1101110 11001011011 111 110101011 111110001 010111010 111 0110011 1101111111 10 1111010101 1101010111 101110100101 10
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,169
Words 257
Sentences 31
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 11, 11, 10, 12
Lines Amount 44
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 222
Words per stanza (avg) 53
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Written on May 11, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on May 11, 2023

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